‘If you can pay the rent, then you should be able to rent the damn house,’ Michigan Rep. Abraham Aiyash said.

Pennsylvania, where a housing crisis was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, stands to benefit from the plan announced by the White House on May 16.

President Joe Biden’s spending package has provided billions in funding for housing initiatives across the country.

As pandemic-related assistance is rolled back, Americans across the country are experiencing a fresh wave of hardship.

In the eight months since California’s rental assistance program began, fraud has been virtually nonexistent.

The housing crisis risks putting homeownership out of the reach of lower-income Americans.

‘Patterns of housing insecurity and racial and socioeconomic inequality that existed prior to COVID-19 have been exacerbated,’ said one analyst.

Only 13% of the American population is Black — but Black Americans represent 35% of tenants evicted during the pandemic.

There are signs that the job market, for all its deep losses, might be set up for a fast hiring recovery.